 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 Seiten
...destitute of aid, Falls undistinguish'd by the victor Spade ! # * * » * PROM AN ESSAY ON MAN. HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer... | |
 | Jesse Olney - 1838 - 346 Seiten
...good of one, but all. LESSON CXXIV. Providence Vindicated in the Present. State of Man. — POPE*. 1. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know; Or who could suffer... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1838 - 360 Seiten
...most. Ib. 270. To deal with fools disposed to rhyme. Wilkie. I hold it rash at any time, 271. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state. Pope. 272. Begin with gentle toils; and, as your nerves Grow firm,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 Seiten
...here or there ! The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heaven anger, zeal and fortitude supply ; Even avarice, prudence ; prescribed, their present state : From brutes wlmt men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...here, or there 1 The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heaven w what more thou art than man, Worth naming Son of God by v prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spiri ta know: Or who could suffer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 Seiten
...or here or there ? The blest today is as completely so, 75 As who began a thousand years ago. III. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer... | |
 | L. J. Swingle - 1990 - 318 Seiten
...limits of human understanding. It has affinities with Alexander Pope's argument in An Essay on Man that "Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, / All but the page prescrib'd, their present state" (I, 77-78). Men suffer, as Pope reminds us, from pride, "reas'ning... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...imperfect, Heav'n in fault; Say rather, Man's as perfect as he ought: Pope POETRY QUOTATIONS Pope 63 EL-4 A Red, Red prescrib'd, their present state: (Fr. Epistle I) 64 Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That... | |
 | Nancy Kress - 2002 - 322 Seiten
...Now Available in Hardcover from Tor Books Turn the page for a preview of Nancy Kress 's latest Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state. — ALEXANDER POPE, "AN ESSAY ON MAN" PROLOGUE MARS July, 2168 Bellington... | |
 | John Farrell - 2006 - 372 Seiten
...without it we would be even more miserable than we are. Ignorance is another indispensable resource. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer... | |
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Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would... 
